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    The document discusses different types of folklore stories including fables, fairy tales, and fabulation. Fables typically feature animal characters and teach a moral lesson. Fairy tales involve fantasy elements like magic and supernatural beings. Fabulation refers to modern fiction that embraces verbal artifice over realism conventions.

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    FAIRYTALES, FABLES

    & FABULATION

    FABLES
    FABLE - A short story, typically with animals as
    characters, conveying a moral; a story, typically a
    supernatural one incorporating elements of myth
    and legend. Recorded from Middle English, the word
    comes via Old French from Latin fabula story, from
    fari speak.

    FABLES
    Fables are stories intended to teach a lesson, and
    animals often speak and act like human beings.

    ELEMENTS TO REMEMBER
    ANIMALS are usually the main characters
    The plot and characters are SIMPLE
    Stories teach a MORAL or LESSON
    SETTING is common and nonspecific
    Author uses PERSONIFICATION

    FAIRY TALES
    a tale about fairies, of strange incident,
    coincidence and marvelous progress or a story,
    usually for children, about elves, hobgoblins,
    dragons, fairies or other magical creatures.
    fairy tales are the chains of variants of individual
    fairy tale motifs and elements.

    Stories with fairies or other magical creatures,


    usually for children.
    A modern fairy tale is written in a traditional style
    with the elements of folklore but with a
    contemporary twist.

    Stories include fantasy, make believe, and often magic.


    Stories often begin Once upon a time . . . or Long, long ago . . . .
    Characters include royalty or a kingdom setting.
    Stories end . . . happily ever after.
    Incidents may come in threes.
    Characters or events may be found in sevens.
    Characters are clearly defined as good and evil.
    Good conquers evil.
    Magical devices such as wands, swords, or horses assist the resolution of the story.
    Picture book fractured fairy tales are published in abundance.

    FABULATION
    FABULATION - A term used by some modern critics for a
    mode of modern fiction that openly delights in its self
    conscious verbal artifice, thus departing from the
    conventions of realism.
    Robert Scholes in his book The Fabulators (1967) describes
    fabulation in the works of John Barth, Kurt Vonnegut, and others
    as an essentially comic and allegorical mode of fiction that
    often adopts the forms of romance or of the picaresque
    novel.

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